Once again, thanks to everyone for a very productive rehearsal this week! It’s all coming together nicely, and I feel very confident that we’re ready for our very first gig of the season – on July 19!
Since Wednesday is a dress rehearsal, there will be a variation in our pattern. Our warm-up will be a bit shorter than usual. We will still sight-read a piece, but we’ll do shorter scale work and try to jump into phase 2 fairly quickly.
Phase 2 of rehearsal will be to run the tentative concert program (coming up momentarily!) with only minimal spot-checking where I can’t possibly avoid saying something. I hope that will take us to shortly after the break.
The final phase of our rehearsal will be to review and perhaps do some work on the pieces we’re working on for later performances.
Without further ado, here is the tentative concert programme (IN THE CORRECT ORDER – I’ll publish a final version after rehearsal in case we need to make any corrections):
11 – Cartoon Symphony
9 – Arabian Dances
2 – Michelle/Eleanor Rigby/Yesterday
1 – The 80s
58 – Les Miserables
40 – Windjammer
17 – Eine Kleine Rockmusik
63 – Hallelujah
(22- The Stripper – spare – if time requires)
36 – Space and Beyond
Phase 3:
59 – Super Mario
64 – Bolero
25 – Blue Orchid
4 – Standard of St George
This is also our last rehearsal before – what I affectionately call – The Gap. Yes, we’re already there. I can’t believe it either! So, I’ll see you on Wednesday the 12th, we’ll have a concert on the 19th, and then I won’t see you until August 9. Bummer.
Please note that we have confirmed August 26 for Victoria Beach! (The website pages have been updated to reflect this).
I hope to see most of you on Wednesday!
Happy playing!
Elizabeth.